Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Stewart, James W. 1857 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

JAMES W. STEWART.

    James W. Stewart, a substantial and influential farmer of Waterville,
township, Marshall county, was born in the state of Illinois on December 14,
1857, being the son of Samuel and Sarah (Leach) Stewart, natives of the state of
New York and Pennsylvania, respectively. The parents were married in
Pennsylvania and soon thereafter established their home in Illinois, where the
mother died in 1873 at the age of fifty-seven years. Two years after the death
of his wife, Samuel Stewart moved to Iowa, locating in Wappelo county, where he
died in December, 1889, at the age of seventy-nine years.

    Samuel and Sarah Stewart were the parents of nine children: Hezekiah,
Calvin, Julia, Irene, Sarah, Helen, Melvin, Clark, and James W. Hezekiah is a
resident of Boone county, Iowa; Calvin resides in Grundy county, Iowa; Julia
Bowen is a resident of Illinois; Irene Heath is a widow and resides with her
daughter in South Dakota; Helen Smith lives, in Minneapolis; Melvin lives in
Grundy county, Iowa; Clark M. is a resident of Marysville, this county, and
James W., in Waterville township. Samuel Stewart was a member of the Fifty-fifth
regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and the son Hezekiah was in the
Seventy-fifth regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, both seeing much active
service during the Civil War.

    James W. Stewart received his education in the public schools of Illinois
and remained a resident of his native state until he was eighteen years of age;
he then moved to Iowa, where he remained for two years, when he came to Kansas
in 1878. Here he located on the old Indian reservation and three months later
sold his claim and purchased eighty acres in Herkimer township at five dollars
per acre, on ten-year time. The times were hard and Mr. Stewart had many
difficulties to encounter for a few years in meeting his payments, but in the
end he succeeded and at the same time developed and improved the place. He sold
the farm in 1888 and located three miles northwest of Waterville, where he
obtained eighty acres of excellent land. This he also improved and engaged in
farming until 1906, when he sold out and purchased his present farm of one
hundred and sixty acres at the edge of Waterville and forty acres further north.
This is a splendid farm, highly developed and nicely improved, with a beautiful
modern house and other farm buildings. With the excellent and substantial
buildings, surrounded with trees and shrubbery, the place is one of the ideal
country homes of Marshall county, and as a general farmer and stockman, Mr.
Stewart is meeting with much success.

    On August 1, 1879, James W. Stewart was married to Eugenie Hill Yale, who
was born in the state of New York and is the daughter of Samuel and Margaret
Hill, both of whom were also natives of that state. Mrs. Stewart received her
education in her native state and there she grew to womanhood and was united in
marriage to Tracy Yale. They came to Kansas where Mr. Yale died some time
afterward. To James W. and Eugenie Stewart the following children have been
born: Edward, who is deputy county treasurer at Tologo, Oklahoma: Gladys is the
wife of Louis Eddy, of Marysville; Fred is engaged in farming in Cottage Hill
township: Frank resides in Iowa; Walt is at home; Walter is a clerk at Toluca,
Oklahoma; and Fletcher is at home. The children received their education in the
common and high schools of the county, and are well prepared for life's battles.
Mrs. Stewart and the children are members of the Lutheran church and the family
is prominent in the social activities of their home community.

    Mr. Stewart is identified with the Republican party and has held the office
of township treasurer. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons
and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is vice-president of the County Fair
Association and one of the active members of the board of management.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)



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